Family: Cunoniaceae
Plant: A tree up to 25m high with smooth grey mottled bark and horizontal lines encircling the trunk.
Flowers: Small, star-like with 5 white sepals (no petals) in dense axillary panicles up to 12cm long. The sepals later enlarge and turn pinkish-red.
Flowering: September-January.
Fruit: Dry nut surrounded by an enlarged pink calyx 8mm long.
Leaves: Opposite, stiff, elliptic, 6-12cm long and 2-5cm wide with toothed margins and a prominent swelling at the base of the leaf blade.
Habitat: Along gullies in sheltered rainforest and rainforest margins.
Features: Prominent swelling at the base of the leaf blade. Fruit a dry nut surrounded by an elongated pink sepal. Horizontal lines on bark.
Name:
Ceratopetalum
From Latin = petals like anthers
apetalum From Latin = without petals.
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Red, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Pink, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
Smooth |
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Habitat |
Rainforest |
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